Please help 50 points ! :) At least 3 paragraphs Many works of literature not readily identified with the mystery or detective story genre nonetheless involve the investigation of a mystery. In these works, the solution to the mystery may be less important than the knowledge gained in the process of its investigation. Choose a novel or play in which one or more of the characters confront a mystery. Then write an essay in which you identify the mystery and explain how the investigation illuminates the meaning of the work as a whole. Do not merely summarize the plot.

You may choose a work from the list below or another novel or play of similar quality.

Absalom, Absalom Agnes of God Alias Grace All the King's Men Bleak House Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Crime and Punishment Equus Fifth Business Frankenstein A Gathering of Old Men Ghosts Great Expectations The Good Soldier The Great Gatsby Hamlet Heart of Darkness

Hedda Gabler In the Lake of the Woods Jane Eyre Joe Turner's Come and Gone Lord Jim The Mayor of Casterbridge Monkey Bridge Oedipus Rex The Remains of the Day Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Snow Falling on Cedars Song of Solomon Tom Jones The Trial Trifles The Turn of the Screw Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?